Development of a Transformable Mobile Robot Composed of Homogeneous Gear-Type Units

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1602-1607

  Tokashiki, Hiroki ^a   Amagai, Hisaya ^a   Endo, Satoshi ^a   Yamada, Koji ^a   Kelly, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEARS; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MOTION CONTROL;

JOYSTICKS; TRANSFORMABLE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0347409495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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